Capital & Main: Will Trump’s Return Be a Devil’s Bargain for Workers Seeking to Organize?

By Tracie McMillanRead the original article on Capital & Main’s website. As Donald Trump returns to the White House this week, the people that Capital & Main has covered for the last 18 months in its national series on worker organizing could face a difficult transition.  Pro-labor observers expect that members of the federal agency overseeing unions, the National … Read more

Capital & Main: Nurses Union on Pre-Contract Strike, Waffle House Wage Theft

These Nurses Got a Union — But Say They Can’t Get a Contract Without a Strike Jesse Baum, December 13, 2024Six hundred New Orleans nurses join a national surge in pre-contract strikes. Waffle House Workers Say Owners Pocket Millions Through Wage Theft Victoria Bouloubasis, December 20, 2024Servers say the chain forces them to do janitorial … Read more

The Cut’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2024

Read the full article here. Here at the Cut, we’re building a community for women and femmes and the curiosities that drive us. This year, our readers were driven by a curiosity about the lives of others. You read and commented and shared as writers got personal about divorces and almost-divorces, fraught family dynamics in … Read more

Tracie McMillan joins Tavis Smiley to talk health care / Tavis Smiley Show (radio)

Tracie McMillan, Journalist and Author of “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America” gives her analysis about the failures of the health care system and the challenging privilege of the suspect, Luigi Mangione. Listen on The Tavis Smiley Show website or wherever you get your podcasts. The Tavis Smiley Show.

Tracie McMillan on Stateside: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024 / Stateside (podcast)

View the original page here. In today’s edition of Stateside, earlier this year Tracie McMillan published a book on where she recounts her late mother’s battle with health insurance. She joined Stateside to talk about what is on her mind after the recent fatal shooting of a health insurance executive in New York. Then, recently, Crystallee Crain, an … Read more

Former Visiting Journalist Tracie McMillan Discusses Her Book: The White Bonus / Russell Sage Foundation

Read the original post here. Tracie McMillan is an independent, award-winning journalist and author. She was an RSF visiting journalist in spring 2022. Her essays and journalism have been published in many publications including the New York Times, Mother Jones, Harper’s, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and National Geographic. Her first book, The … Read more

Capital & Main: Philadelphia workers want legal protections enforced

Philadelphia Workers Are Readying a Bill With a Basic Demand: Just Enforce the Law Jen Byers, November 12, 2024Nannies, housekeepers and gig workers have already won legal protections. Now they want consequences for bosses who break the rules.

Weekend reads for October 5, 2024 / The Ink (newsletter)

The Ink, a newsletter “On politics and culture, money and power, from Anand Giridharadas,” listed “Being white paid off for JD Vance—by $20 million (at least)” by Tracie McMillan for Reckon News as one of the weekend reads the week of October 5th. Click here to read this issue.

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